medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
>
> Today (22. February) is the feast day of:
>
> 1) The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle.
In the York Calendar, a Minor double feast.
> This feast is first mentioned in the _Depositio martyrum_ of the
> Chronographer of 354: _natale Petri de Cathedra_. In the late fifth
> century Perpetuus of Tours calls it _Natalis S. Petri episcopatus_. When
> the Cathedra Petri came to be celebrated on 18. January, the two feasts
> were differentiated by calling that one the feast of of the Chair of Peter
> at Rome and today's feast that of the Chair of Peter _at Antioch_
> (commemorating P.'s elevation to the episcopate in that city). Both
> feasts are already present in the early eighth-century Calendar of St.
> Willibrord. With the suppression in 1960 of the 18. January feast the
> specification "of Antioch" was dropped from today's celebration.
We chewed over this in January. I think I advanced the heretical notion
that the 354 reference commemorates the martyrdom of an inanimate object...
As for Peter's elevation to the episcopate of Antioch: the obvious question
is, elevated by whom? But that sort of thing tends to bring anathemas
(anathemata?) down on my head!
John Briggs
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